BB: CCIW: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Mr. Ypsi]

Augie-IWU were scheduled for a title-implication showdown DH at 1 today, but nothing on the IWU, Augie, or CCIW websites.  Anyone got news?

[RedMan1]

Mr. Ypsi, Wesleyan swept the DH today 7-3, and 10-7 in 11. Game 3 will be played Monday in Bloomington at 4 I believe.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Mr. Ypsi, Wesleyan swept the DH today 7-3, and 10-7 in 11. Game 3 will be played Monday in Bloomington at 4 I believe.

Thanks!  (and +k)

With Carthage and IWU still undefeated, while Augie has 4 losses (conference play), I think we have (semi)officially moved from Big 3 to Big 2.

[knarocky22]

No "semi" about it.  Augie has no chance of winning the conference championship.  They have to just hope to play well enough the rest of the season and get hot and win the conference tournament or get an at-large bid to the regional.

[REDMENFAN]

Carthage will play five games in the next three days. The first three against Elmhurst, and a DH Wednesday against Marian.  Plenty of pitchers should get some action, especially Wednesday in the non-conference double header.  It'll be interesting to see what Augie does Wednesday. Typically, he plays a lot of the back-ups in the non-conference games.  With the way the Carthage is rolling, we'll see if he sticks to that, or continues with the regulars.  Good luck today and tomorrow against Elmhurst!

[augie28]

I agree with Knarocky22.  Augie has shown no pitching strength at all this year, and as we saw in the first two games against IWU, the offense just can't win every game, no matter how capable they may be.  I really see no hope for Augie to beat both Carthage and IWU on the same weekend to win the conference tourney, so they need to finish strong and take 2 of 3 from Carthage to keep any at-large hopes alive.

Update from IWU website:  Augie 5 - IWU 0, bottom 5th 

[Gregory Sager]

North Central beat North Park today in Naperville, 13-3. This was an extremely disappointing loss for NPU, to say the least, as the Vikings now has served up the lone conference wins for both Millikin and NCC.

[REDMENFAN]

Carthage took a doubleheader from Elmhurst today 10-4, and 4-0.  Acevado had another great day with a homerun in each game. Husing and Ruffie both pitched complete games for the Redmen.

[RedMan1]

Carthage also set a school record for most consecutive wins with 21.

I'm pretty sure this is 2nd or 3rd best in the nation with winning streaks. Salisbury has now 32? and Trinity out east also is in the 20's.

Does anyone know for sure?

[RedMan1]

Carthage takes over sole possession of first place with Augie beating Wesleyan 10-4.

[mr_b]

Carthage also set a school record for most consecutive wins with 21.

I'm pretty sure this is 2nd or 3rd best in the nation with winning streaks. Salisbury has now 32? and Trinity out east also is in the 20's.

Does anyone know for sure?

Trinity is 24-0 after beating Coast Guard today.  Salisbury is 32-1, dropping their first game in 10 innings and now riding a 32-game winning streak. 

[mr_b]

Millikin and Wheaton split a twin bill today.  The middle of the pack of the CCIW is getting pretty interesting.

[knarocky22]

Losing 2 out of 3 to IWU is not what hurt Augie the most (although it didn't help).  The losses to Elmhurst and Wheaton are what killed them.  It seems that Augie always seems to drop a few games throughout the CCIW schedule that they really shouldn't which come back to haunt them.  These are the losses that Carthage and IWU seem to avoid.

[mwunder]

No offense intended, but how is Wheaton garnering more votes than Augie or Ill Wesleyan on the current DIII baseball.com poll question?

Name recognition and confusion over Wheaton Mass?  Or are there that many Wheaton fans on this site?

[REDMENFAN]

Here's the article from the paper today about the Carthage victories. Augie gives the guys some credit, which he hasn't done a whole lot of so far this year in order to keep them on edge.

http://ksn.kenoshanews.com/view_article.php?articleNum=2835384